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MACHINE FOB APPLYING PARAFFIN T0 CIGARETTE PAPER. No. 528 832. Patented 001;; 30, 1894..

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A. C. MARSHAL.

Patented Oct. 30-, 1894.

(No Model.)

MACHINE FOR APPLYING P ARAFPIN T0 CIGARETTE PAPER. No. 528,332.

UNITED. STATES' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED CHARLES MAR-' OHAL, residing at the city of Paris, France,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Applying Paraffin to Cigarette-Paper in Cigarette-Making Ma.- chines, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent of France for fifteen years, No. 235,610, dated January 18, 1894;) and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being made to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is-to apply the parafline to the cigarette paper in cigarette making machines as the manufacture of thecigarettes goes on. i

The invention consists of special arrangements of mechanism whereby the automatic and absolutely regular application of the paraffine is-effected to each and every cigarette manufactured. I

The mechanism, when applied to what is known as the Decoufl machine for making cigarettes without adhesive material, may be operated by the mechanism, which actuates the printing stamp of the controlling mark; but it may also be applied to Decoufl or other cigarette machines, whether the cigarette tubes are pasted or not, and it may be operated directly or indirectly from the cam shaft or any other suitable moving part of the machine.

In the drawings hereto annexed Figure 1 is an elevation of the mechanism for applying the paraffine adapted to the entering end of a Decoufl cigarette machine for making cigarettes without paste or other adhesive material. Fig.2 is a side view-being a projection of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side View showing in full and dotted lines two arrangements of support for the paper bobbin, and Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are detail views of the paraffining pad and of parts connected therewith.

In the well known Decoufl machines the support 10 of the fork p in which the bobbin of paper 10 is mounted is usually fixed on a prolongation q of the table on which the stamping and other devices are placed. On the prolongation q I fix the support .9 of a cistern a containing the paraffine inside of which is an octagonal rotating drum b. This drum 1) is carried by an axis 1) on which is ALFRED CHARLES MARoriAL, on PARIS, FRANCE.

MACHINE FORAPPLYING'PARAFFIN To CIGARETTE-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,332 dated October 30, 1894. Application filed March 2, 1894. Serial No. 502,034. (No model.) Patented in France January 18, 1894,1To. 235,610.

fixed a ratchet wheel 0 of eight teeth into which takes a pawl d mounted on a lever d. (Figs. 6 and 7.) The lever 01' is secured on an axis f'having a rocking or oscillating motion which transmits the well known movements to the controlling or other distinctive stamp. The ratchet wheel 0 is held in proper position by the retaining pawl or lever e pivoted at e and acted on by the flat spring e The levers d and t may be made separate an both fixed on the same shaftf. Y

( The vertical slide't of the stamp is provided at its lower part with a stud g carrying a roller g which comes in contact with a lever i pivoted on the stud 2 fixed to the part i Connected with the lever 45 is the lever arm h which forms the paraffining pad and which is covered with indiarubber on its acting face. A spring 7c acts on the lever i so as to press its lower end constantly against the roller g and to raise the pad h when it is to remain out of action.

A scraper r fixed on the end of a flexible blade 0" bears constantly against the flat faces of the drum-b to equalize the paraffine thereon before the same is applied to the paper.

The cigarette paper p is rolled up as usual round the bobbin 0, the axis 0' of which turns in the branches of the fork 19 This paper is unrolled by the ordinary well known feeding mechanism and is led over the guide roller 4) before passing between the faces of the drum 1) and the pad h.

The arrangement of the support p, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, has the advantage of reducthis case the paper, on leaving the bobbin,

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passes round the guide roller 1: which is mounted at the end of the lever 'u pivoted at c to the prolongation q. A spring 2: acts on the lever q) to impart the requisite tension to the paper 1).

In the arrangement shownin Fig. 3 the paper passes in unrolling over the guide rollers n n and the support p of the fork p is fixed at the end of the prolongation q in front of the stamping and paraffining devices.

In the arrangement shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3 the fork p is a straight prolongation of the support 10' and the paper, in unrolling from the bobbin passes over the guide rollers m m before entering between the drum b and the pad h. The guide roller 'm is carried by a bell crank lever m pivoted at m to the fork p and is acted on by the spring m to secure the tension of the paper.

It will now be understood that after each movement forward of the paper the stamping and paraffining mechanism is brought into action in the following Way: When the slide tof the stamp is raised by the lever t the roller 9 rises at the same time and causes the lever 'i of the paraffining pad h to oscillate on its pivot i. This pad h is thereby lowered and presses the paper 10 against that face of the drum 6 which happens to be uppermost. The paper is thereby paraflined and when the slide tdescends the paper rises with the pad h. In the downward movement of the parts tand t the lever d operates the ratchet wheel 0 by means of the pawl d and turns it one-eighth of a revolution so that a fresh face of the drum is brought uppermost for the next parafiining operation. During the partial rotation of the paraifining drum 1) the paper is moved forward by the usual feeding devices.

Thecuttingoff of the paper, when itis formed into a tube, is effected either at the edge of the transverse band of paraffine, or at the middle thereof according as the cigarettes are to be paratfined at one or both ends.

It is obvious that the automatic paraffining devices above described may be modified to suit any other kind of machine for manufacturing cigarettes whether with pasted or non-pasted tubes besides that known as the Decoufl which I have referred to more especially by way of example. Hence I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the specific structure described.

I claim- 1. In a cigarette making machine, mechanism for applying paraffine to the cigarette paper consisting of a paraftine cistern a, a polygonal drum 1) contained in the said cistern, a pad h for pressing the paper against the faces of the said drum, a rock-shaft f, pawl and ratchet machanisln actuated by the rockshaft and connected to the drum for imparting step by step rotary movement thereto, a stamp mechanism, a connection between the stamp mechanism and the rock-shaft for actuating the stamp, and a connection between the stamp mechanism and the pad h for actu ating the same by the movement of the stamp mechanism, substantially as described.

2. A paratfining mechanism for paper, the

same consisting of a paraffine cistern, a polygonal drum dipping into said cistern, said drum having a ratchet connected thereto to move the same, a pad for pressing the paper against the drum, a rock-shaft f having an arm d carrying a pawl d co-operating with the ratchet to impart a step by step movement thereto, an arm 15' also connected to the rockshaft and engaging the stamp mechanism to move the same, a stud g on the stamp mechanism, and an arm 6 carried by the pad and projecting into the path of the stud g, substantially as described 1 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED CHARLES MAROI-IAL. Witnesses:

GEORGES LAURENT, EUGENE WATTER. 

